Hello Everyone,
About 3 weeks ago I caught a virus on my pc so I decided to reformat. However my mother board is an ASUS A8V-E Deluxe (PCI-Express) and apparently I neeed some boot disk with SATA RAID drives during a reformat. Anyway I didn't know about this and after the reformat I corrupted my hard drive.
I sent my pc in for repairs and told them the problem. They said they'd set the BIOS to standard settings so next time when I reformat, I won't have to use any extra disks. About 2 weeks ago, I got the pc back. I installed my games on it and started playing but then the pc began acting really strange. At random times the screen would go to a blue screen that said something like "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down.... etc.". I tried hard to find out the problem, but due to it's random occurance it was extremely difficult. Finally I decided to reformat the whole pc and install application by applicationand test.
Well just about 30 mins ago I tried to reformat, only finding that only my D drive can be unpartitioned. My C drive can't, thus I can't clear Windows and do a clean reformat. This is really fustrating as I told pc guy to set the BIOS so I can REFORMAT NEXT TIME!
Does anyone give me a step by step explination as to how to change the BIOS so I can unpartition the C drive when I boot through the Windows XP disk?
Thank you very much.
Maqqieman
About 3 weeks ago I caught a virus on my pc so I decided to reformat. However my mother board is an ASUS A8V-E Deluxe (PCI-Express) and apparently I neeed some boot disk with SATA RAID drives during a reformat. Anyway I didn't know about this and after the reformat I corrupted my hard drive.
I sent my pc in for repairs and told them the problem. They said they'd set the BIOS to standard settings so next time when I reformat, I won't have to use any extra disks. About 2 weeks ago, I got the pc back. I installed my games on it and started playing but then the pc began acting really strange. At random times the screen would go to a blue screen that said something like "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down.... etc.". I tried hard to find out the problem, but due to it's random occurance it was extremely difficult. Finally I decided to reformat the whole pc and install application by applicationand test.
Well just about 30 mins ago I tried to reformat, only finding that only my D drive can be unpartitioned. My C drive can't, thus I can't clear Windows and do a clean reformat. This is really fustrating as I told pc guy to set the BIOS so I can REFORMAT NEXT TIME!
Does anyone give me a step by step explination as to how to change the BIOS so I can unpartition the C drive when I boot through the Windows XP disk?
Thank you very much.
Maqqieman